On a MediaWiki that is using BlueSpice, if a page gets created I can delete it, but what if I want to completely expunge its record, how can I remove all traces of a page I do not want so that it can ...

I'm working on a group of related wikis. I want $wgSitename to show up prominently in the left sidebar. What's a good way to do this?
I could hack the skin but this is not a good way.
I looked into ...

I upgraded from MediaWiki 1.23 to 1.24.2, but at the end of the upgrade, the pages started to show a strange string, by instance - "COS" at the top of the pages. I tried to inspect the page code to ...

How do you write an internal link with parameters?
I have a stored query from external data and would like to link readers to the semantic internal object that stores the query. However the query is ...

I'd like to chart daily page views/edits/numbers of pages in existence on a site with MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki installed. I have shell access to the site.
How can you automate the storage of ...

We are running an internal MediaWiki server. The wiki server has a PKIX certificate with the following names (the certificate is well formed per RFC 5280 and CA/B Baseline Requirements):
IP Address
...

2 days ago I did the mistake of updating my MediaWiki site, without transfering my old user management plugin.
My site was shut down from my host for mail spam and there are now over 14 million new ...

The ExternalData extension works fine when you I the column names I am looking for, but if I don't know them in advance I look them up from information_schema and then try and fail to hack them into a ...

I have migrated my website from a shared hosting to VPS in order to enable the VisualEditor extension on my MediaWiki website but I am not able to make it work.
Firstly, I have installed the Parsoid ...

On a MediaWiki site running BlueSpice, how can I require that all new account sign ups be approved before the account is created?
I tried adding the ConfirmAccount extension described here, but now ...

I've created a BlueSpice MediaWiki site that I only want visible to users that are logged in. This works fine by creating Read permission only for Users as described here.
All this works fine until ...

In a BlueSpice installation of MediaWiki, the default skin is BlueSpiceSkin and the only other choice offered is Vector. I would like Vector to be the default for all users, but do not see how to do ...

In a vanilla MediaWiki, I would edit the LocalSettings.php to change the line:
## The relative URL path to the logo. Make sure you change this from the default,
## or else you'll overwrite your logo ...

I'm running a wiki using MediaWiki, and when I search for a page the results are clogged with redirects from various capitalization redirects to a page when I only want the result page to appear in ...

I want to render latex on a mediawiki installation that I don't have shell access to.
I've tried and failed to use the Math installation, so I'd like to include the equivalent of these two scripts in ...

currently I have this:
Old Mediawiki 1.11.0 (from 2007!) on shared webhosting (so no shell access) with about 200 articles and many thousand spam articles I deleted via the Webinterface (but they are ...

In MediaWiki, how to see a list of recent revisions if there's no edit in the last thirty days? The Special:RecentChanges page can at the most show the recent 500 changes in the last 30 days which is ...

I'm an administrator and bureaucrat on a few wikis. One wiki allows users to create their own account without approval. Spammers are taking advantage of it and spamming in their profiles.
I checked ...

Is there a permission in MediaWiki that allows a user to edit a discussion but not a page?
That would enable anyone to, say, express a view, but only certain users (e.g. those with a confirmed email) ...

I have mediawiki installed in my local machine. I had to use a form outside wiki which asks the user to upload files with the wiki username and password. In order to achieve this I went through the ...

I'm having a heck of a time getting our internal MediaWiki to allow CONF file uploads. A CONF file is just a plain text file with a *.conf extension.
In ...\LocalSettings.php, I added txt and conf to ...